Lautréamont and Sade

Lautréamont and Sade
Author: Maurice Blanchot
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804750356

In this book, Blanchot forcefully distinguishes his critical project from the major intellectual currents of his day, surrealism and existentialism.

The Weird

The Weird
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 2482
Release: 2012-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466803193

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Isidore

Isidore
Author: Jeremy Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1996
Genre:
ISBN: 9781871592429

An imaginative novel recreating the life of Isidore Ducasse, the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont who he died under mysterious circumstances in 1871. He left almost no clues to his existence, except the explosive, astonishing prose poem, Les Chants de Maldoror, precursor to the works of the Surrealists. Reed evokes a fictional life of the notorious Comte extraordinary for its concentration of poetic power and for its excursions into the psychological hells of the underworld.

Lautréamont Nomad

Lautréamont Nomad
Author: Mark Polizzotti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: French poetry
ISBN: 9781897722718

The Complete Poems and Translations

The Complete Poems and Translations
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-05-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780143104957

The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist--Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works--from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," to the impressive epic mythological poem "Hero and Leander." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Decadent Poetry

Decadent Poetry
Author: Lisa Rodensky
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The poems collected in this volume are expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. They deal with eternal themes of transition, artifice and the ravages of time. It presents the works of writers as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and W B Yeats.

Materia Prima

Materia Prima
Author: Amanda Berenguer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Uruguayan poetry
ISBN: 9781946433060

An anthology of poems by Amanda Berenguer that features her fascination with cosmology and non-orientable objects in geometry (the Möbius strip, the Klein bottle) as well as her concrete and visual poetry. This collection is edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson, with translations by Gillian Brassil, Anna Deeny Morales, Mónica de la Torre, Kristin Dykstra, Kent Johnson, Urayoán Noel, Jeannine Marie Pitas, and Alex Verdolini. The volume also includes an introduction by Roberto Echavarren and an interview conducted by Silvia Guerra.

The Luminous Novel

The Luminous Novel
Author: Mario Levrero
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2021
Genre: Authors and publishers
ISBN: 9781913505028